At the risk of corporate shilling, I'm actually kinda excited to finally be able to talk about the product I've been working on, because we shipped v1.0 at the end of May***. It's called IBM SPSS Analytic Server, and its purpose is to coordinate the execution of analytic jobs (like, building a neural network to predict loads on an electric utility's network) in a distributed environment (like Hadoop). The 1.0 version of Analytic Server is integrated with IBM SPSS Modeler 15, an existing data mining workbench, and IBM SPSS Analytic Catalyst 1, which is a totally new thin-client application that automates some exploratory steps in order to jump-start deeper analysis of data.
If interested, you can read more about it at the Analytic Server information center.
*** Yes, yes, I meant to post about it then, but have been swamped by other things. Also, slacking off on posting this has made this my 500th published post on this blog. Woo.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Inheritance; Lan Samantha Chang; 2004
Lan Samantha Chang leaves her Hunger comfort zone of the Chinese-American experience and the short form to write Inheritance: a Novel of a Chinese family in the years leading up to WWII (and not about dragons). While I think Hunger is a much stronger work, this is still worth a read, if only to get to "The Lake of Dreams" section of the book. In fact, I might even recommend forgoing the first 250 pages and reading "The Lake of Dreams" as a novella. It would be somewhat rough going, not being able to immediately place every name in relation to the narrator, but that disorientation resolves itself as you read on.
Sadly, Inheritance also enters the Annals of Bad Editing for the following:
[note: post backdated to when I originally finished the novel and wrote up notes on it, but actually published on 8/25/2013]
Sadly, Inheritance also enters the Annals of Bad Editing for the following:
Hsiao Taitai held the reigns... [pg 119 of the first edition hardcover]and then
He had the room for one [a maid]; and he liked the idea of a young woman, one of these wasp-wasted... [pg 125]It was the second typo, within 6 pages of the first, that riled me. Someone get the copyeditor more coffee!
[note: post backdated to when I originally finished the novel and wrote up notes on it, but actually published on 8/25/2013]
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